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The Computer Museum in Boston hosted the Pioneer Computer Lecture Series, and posters were created as advertisements for each of the events. Some of those posters were given to Mary Hopper by Brian Silverman.
The page below has pictures of those posters with links to the lectures and related material on the Web. This is designed to be an educational resource about how modern computing developed in the 20th Century.
Z1, Z2, Z3
Who Invented the Computer? Konrad Zuse’s Contribution (Raj Reddy, YouTube)
Konrad Zuse (Computer History Museum)
Zuse and Boolean Logic (Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers)
Zuse’s Program-Controlled Calculators (Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers)
The Z-4 Machine (Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers)
Zuse Computer (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Konrad Zuse (Wikipedia)
Bell Labs Relay Computers
The Bell Labs Relay Computers (George Stibitz, Computer History Museum, YouTube)
George Stibitz (Computer History Museum)
The Relay Computers at Bell labs (George R. Stibitz as Told to Mrs. Evelyn Loveday)
Stibitz’s Calculators at Bell Labs (Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers)
George R. Stibitz (Engineering and Technology History Wiki)
George Robert Stibitz (Encyclopædia Britannica)
George Robert Stibitz (Wikipedia)
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
The ABC Machine: Atanasoff-Berry Computer (John Vincent Atanasoff, Computer History Museum, YouTube)
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer In Operation (Computer History Museum, YouTube)
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (Computer History Museum)
Advent of Electronic Digital Computing (John Vincent Atanasoff, Annals of the History of Computing)
The John Vincent Atanasoff and the Birth of Electronic Digital Computing (Iowa State University)
ABC Reconstruction, 1994-1997 (Iowa State University)
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers)
The Modern History of Computing: Atanasoff (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Atanasoff-Berry Computer (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Atanasoff–Berry Computer (Wikipedia)
ENIAC
The ENIAC by John W. Mauchly (Computer History Museum, YouTube)
Development of the ENIAC Project (John Brainerd, Computer History Museum, YouTube)
ENIAC (Computer History Museum)
The Minds Behind ENIAC (Computer History Museum)
ENIAC at Penn Engineering (University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
The Invention of ENIAC (Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers)
Patent Quarrel at the Moore School Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers)
ENIAC, The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World’s First Computer (Scott McCartney)
The ENIAC Story (Martin H. Weik, Ordnance Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground)
A Report on the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, US Army)
ENIAC: The Army-Sponsored Revolution (William T. Moye, US Army)
ENIAC Simulator and Related Material (Brian L. Stuart, Drexel University)
ENIAC-Full Model (Brian L. Stuart, ThingVerse)
ENIAC (Encyclopædia Britannica)
ENIAC (Wikipedia)
Colossus
The Colossus, WWII Code-Breaking Machine (Tom Flowers, Computer History Museum, YouTube)
Colossus: Breaking the Code (Computer History Museum)
Uncovering Colossus (Brian Randell, The National Museum of Computing, YouTube)
Colossus: Creating a Giant (Computing Heritage, YouTube)
Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age (David A. Price)
Lorenz Ciphers and the Colossus (Tony Sale)
The Colossus Rebuild Project (Tony Sale)
The Modern History of Computing: Colossus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Colossus Computer (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Colossus Computer (Wikipedia)
EDSAC
The Birth and Growth of the Digital Computer (Maurice Wilkes, Computer History Museum, YouTube)
The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (Computer History Museum)
EDSAC – Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (The National Museum of Computing)
EDSAC 99: Some EDSAC Statistics (University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory)
The EDSAC Simulator (Martin Campbell-Kelly, University of Warwick)
EDSAC (Encyclopædia Britannica)
EDSAC (Wikipedia)
Early Manchester Computers
Early Manchester Computers (Dai Edwards, Computer History Museum, YouTube)
Ferranti Mark I Computer (Computer History Museum)
Williams Tube Electrostatic Memory from the Ferranti Mark I (National Museum of American History)
Ferranti-Mark-I (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Ferranti Mark 1 (Wikipedia)
Whirlwind
The Whirlwind Computer (Jay Forrester, Computer History Museum, YouTube)
The Whirlwind Computer (The Computer Museum)
The Whirlwind Computer (The Computer Museum)
Photo of Whirlwind exhibit, taken by Mary Hopper, MIT Museum, June 15, 2023
Whirlwind Exhibit
MIT Museum
Gambrill Center, 314 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142
Whirlwind Core Memory Unit (MIT Museum)
Project Whirlwind Collection (MIT Archives)
The Rise and Fall of Project Whirlwind (Meesue Kim, MIT Computation Archives)
Project Whirlwind Finding Aids and Reports (MIT Libraries)
The Whirlwind Project (Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers)
A Batch-Processing Operating System for the Whirlwind I computer (Charles W. Adams)
Simulator for 1950’s MIT Whirlwind Computer (Guy Fedorkow, GitHub)
Whirlwind (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Whirlwind I (Wikipedia)
The Many Careers of Jay Forrester (Peter Dizikes, MIT Technology Review)
Jay W. Forrester (Computer History Museum)
Jay Wright Forrester (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Jay Wright Forrester (Wikipedia)
Bookshelf
These are some key books in the collection. More…
On the Web
Computer Pioneers: Pioneer Computers Part 1 (Computer History Museum, YouTube)
Computer Pioneers: Pioneer Computers Part 2 (Computer History Museum, YouTube)
TCM Pioneer Computer Lecture Series (The Computer Museum, Website)
TCM Lectures and Historical Videos (Computer History Museum, YouTube Playlist)
Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing (Computer History Museum)
Timeline of Computing History (Computer History Museum)
Electronic Computing (Crash Course Computer Science, YouTube Video)
The Modern History of Computing (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
History of Computing (Wikipedia)
Computer History (Wikipedia)
Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers (Stan Augarten)
The Lesson of History (Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers)
Chronology (Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers)
Tools For Thought (Howard Rheingold)
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Computing (Engineering and Technology History Wiki)
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